Head Checks: Off-road Biking Bela Vista to Faro, Portugal with Annalies

The people you meet in a hostel or larger Farmhouse AirBnB can often make it worth the while. Annalies, from Belgium, has been my Partner in Crime since she arrived a few days after I had, here in Bela Vista, a slice of heaven in Southeastern Portugal. Annelies, who was another Digital Nomad staying atContinue reading “Head Checks: Off-road Biking Bela Vista to Faro, Portugal with Annalies”

Serendipity = Do. Epic. Shit.

Dima, Anna and The Fighting Dutch: Training Egyptian MMA/Boxing Met up with another friend, Dima from Russia, and his Ukrainian and Russian friends. I met Dima in a hostel in Montenegro and this was filmed my last days in Hurghada, Egypt. Sergy, a paisano of theirs, has been traveling since July 2021 with little toContinue reading “Serendipity = Do. Epic. Shit.”

SS Thistlegorm – Best Dives Ever

Dive Buddy’s, Ebihardt Niemes’, brilliant camerawork, capturing train car, left above divers’ bubbles, which was blown clear of Hold #4 in October 1941. Other shots of our Dive Master, Peter Bruce, and I tripping through the 4th – 3rd Holds. Check out at Oonas Dive Club and Hotel when you’re in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Don’tContinue reading “SS Thistlegorm – Best Dives Ever”

Best Made Plans – Tectonic Shifts [cont.]

Dubrovnik, Croatia Oct. 20, 2021It was exactly 10 years ago today that I boarded a plane from LAX to head to New Zealand as part of yet another of my Grand 10-Year Plans. Snickering from the Heavens Yes, anyone who knows me, knows I have been preaching and living my Plans For the Living [P4L]Continue reading “Best Made Plans – Tectonic Shifts [cont.]”

Tectonic Shifts – 10th Anniversary Oct. 20, 2021

Bus to Dubronik from Split, Croatia Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021 09:54 Travel like all well-planned ideas need support. I can’t thank all of you enough for your moral, spiritual, financial, culinary, historical, emotional and physical supports throughout these last 10 years of my Plans For the Living [P4L]. I’m blessed to have been able toContinue reading “Tectonic Shifts – 10th Anniversary Oct. 20, 2021”